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Posted by Blake Seidel

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Lucky for us, none of our cats has any desire to go outside, so we have no flight risks in our house. We could leave the door wide open for hours if we wanted to and they wouldn't step one purrfect paw out the door, but that's not true for every cat. Some cats will run at even the slightest opening, not knowing that what they have inside is so much better than life outdoors. It's one of every cat pawrents' greatest fears - the cat escaping and them never coming back. That's what struck our pawrent below, and they went on a wild ride to rescue "their" cat.

They thought they lost their cat, 'Luna', after accidentally leaving the door open. Rushing outside to rescue them, they find a black cat limping outside. Without thinking, they scoop up the cat and drive to the vet, spending over $400 on treatment. Antibiotics, check up, the whole works. Finally letting out a sigh of relief, the pawrent and "her" cat drive home. She lets the cat out of the carrier, and lo and behold, her cat appears from behind the sofa. Uh oh!

We're not sure if they accidentally stole a neighbor's cat or rescued a stray, but in the end, they did a good thing. The Cat Distribution System works in purrfectly unconventional ways, and they may be $400 poorer, but hey, they got a new cat! Now it's your turn to scroll down and read through all the hissterical details below!

https://cheezburger.com/43644933/pawrent-rushes-outside-to-find-their-missing-cat-pays-over-400-at-the-vet-then-comes-home-and

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Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

https://cheezburger.com/43636997/50-cutest-cat-posts-of-2025-to-cozy-up-with-and-smile-all-the-way-to-next-year

The end of the year is almost here, and really, friends, we don't know how we made it. A lot happened this year. Some would argue too much. In every corner that we looked, there was drama, there was chaos, there were things that we… simply didn't want to see sometimes. But one thing helped us get through it. One thing has made us smile, no matter what else was going on. It's the same thing every year. It always works, and it will continue to work. It's cats. And more specifically, it's adorable cat posts and stories.

There is a reason why adorable cat stories go viral all the time. People need them. People need the pawsitivity in their lives. And cute cats fulfill that need for us. Forever and always, no matter what is going on in the world, we know that there are corners on the internet full of cats that we can go to. There will always be a new adorable cat, there will always be a sweet story for us to smile at, and cats will always continue to rule the internet. As they should.

https://cheezburger.com/43636997/50-cutest-cat-posts-of-2025-to-cozy-up-with-and-smile-all-the-way-to-next-year

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Oops, I had the draft of this post open yesterday evening, but forgot to post it! How did your writing go? I, um, opened my document and looked at it, but there was no writing. Unless I count the course plans I worked on for my job, which I will not.

Tally:
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brithistorian,

badly_knitted,

goddess47,

the_siobhan,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

sanguinity,

chestnut_pod

Day 16:

china_shop,

brithistorian,

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Bonus farm news: Housemate is sawing up a section of a large oak trunk that we got when the neighbors had a tree cut down. Among other things, he plans to make a large oak table for the living room out of two of the (very wide and heavy!) planks. Which will now need drying for two years before said table can be made, but I think it will be gorgeous.

erinptah

In that last post about pruning my tag-wrangling assignments, I mentioned the “got 1 fic, the fandom tag got canonized, then nobody ever used it again” fandoms.

Then it occurred to me that there’s an even smaller type: the “nobody used it again, and the original author deleted, so the fandom tag is still around but has 0 works” fandoms.

If there’s an automatic way to find how many of these you wrangle, I don’t know what it is. So I just did a pass through my fandoms with 0 unfilterable/unwrangleable tags attached, and double-checked the work counts.

You know how AO3 will give you a “Retry later” error if you try to load too many pages in a row? Yeah, it made me take at least four breaks while I was going through this process.

The payoff is, now I’m down to 1338 fandoms. Knocked a full 62 empty tags off the list.

(Their tags are still canonical, but they won’t show up on the Unassigned Fandoms list, until/unless some user posts another fanwork that makes them 1-use again.)

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silveradept

It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 16: Badger )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Samantha Fu - Theme from Discotheque

sonia

I sang in a concert tonight. We got to sing in a local synagogue with fabulous acoustics because the synagogue's event director joined the choir this session. It was great to be able to hear each other and know that the audience was hearing us sound better too.

I had a small trio part in a Serbian song, and then a solo verse in a Ukrainian song where there were 17 (!) short verses and we each had one, except the last one we all sang together.

It all came together! I was nervous, but it all flowed, and I'm getting better at being able to open up and sing even with an audience there. As the sessions go by and we all get to know each other and get more comfortable with performing, the ambient nerves settle down and I have an easier time managing my own nerves. I used to outright panic, and now I worry a fair amount beforehand, but by the time the concert itself rolls around, I figure I'm as prepared as I'm going to get.

So grateful to get to sing with this teacher and these singers every week. This is a big piece of what I came back to the Bay Area for.

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I have a number of projects on the go - some I start just so that my idle hands have something to do, some where I have hit a snag and put aside until I can figure it out, some I get bored with. BUT! I finished the cowl I started knitting in March for a friend's birthday in September!

( cut for photo and blather )

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Posted by Lana DeGaetano

https://cheezburger.com/43658757/a-ray-of-sunshine-in-the-form-of-22-fuzzy-feline-funnies-december-16-2025

If you're looking for some warmth on a cold Tuesday morning, you've stumbled upon the purrfect place. Warmth doesn't always come from external stimuli, but rather from things that warm the heart more than any space heater could.

Cats. Felines. All of the above and everything in between; We've been blessed to exist in the same timeline as the feline species. Since their domestication, cats have figured out how to not only milk food and shelter out of random hooman they stumbled upon on the street via the cat distribution system, but also how to worm their way into our hooman hearts and stay there furever.

We're approaching the official transition to the winter season, and that means you and your feline companion will need a bit of extra warmth until the snow melts and the warmth returns in the spring. Though your feline can manage by way of their fur, your warm lap, and a sliver of sunlight peeking through the window, we hoomans have to bear the cold every day outside of our homes. Heartwarming content is the key to getting a pep in your step when the cold winter has you feeling blue, so scroll below. The warmth starts here.

https://cheezburger.com/43658757/a-ray-of-sunshine-in-the-form-of-22-fuzzy-feline-funnies-december-16-2025

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Posted by Isabella Penn

https://cheezburger.com/43617797/22-funny-feline-memes-to-melt-your-frosty-mood

The cold weather and total lack of sunlight are officially turning all of us into Scrooge. Not the fun, redeemed-by-the-ghosts Scrooge that happens at the end of the movie, but rather the pre-epiphany version who side-eyes carolers and mutters under his breath about holiday cheer. When the sun sets before we've even eaten lunch and the wind feels like an insult, it's hard not to spiral into full winter gremlin mode.

But thankfully, there's one saving grace that keeps us from becoming full-time curmudgeons, and that is our cats. They could not care less what time of year it is. Seasonal depr*ssion? Holiday stress? Existential dread brought on by darkness at 4:30 PM? Your cat has absolutely no interest in participating. They're too busy loafing on warm laundry, demanding dinner at the same time every day, and acting personally offended when you dare to step outside and return with cold hands.

https://cheezburger.com/43617797/22-funny-feline-memes-to-melt-your-frosty-mood

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

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settiai

Okay, we're right at 16 hours to the deadline, so now I'm starting to feel a bit of pressure as I try to get things finished up.

I had a headache this morning and took off work to stay curled up in bed until close to lunchtime, so my sleep schedule is completely messed up again. Which, in this case, is probably a good thing, as I honestly tend to do better writing at night than during the day. My plan is to stay up until at least 2-3am working on finishing up my fic(s) or, at least, getting them to a point where they'd be considered a properly finished work if I were to get hit by a bus before I could get back to them to make additions.

I'm sure that I'll end up spending some more time tweaking things over the next week, cleaning things up and maybe adding some extra scenes depending on just how much my muse decides to cooperate tonight. Still, the important thing is getting everything finished.

So... I guess we'll see how it goes?

Current Mood: hopeful

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Time and circumstance conspired to keep me from reviewing the second book in the Cemeteries of Amalo book, The Grief of Stones, but today I finished the third book, Tomb of the Dragons and I do have time to review this third and final book in the trilogy.

This is NOT a spoiler-free review.

Tomb of the Dragons retains much of what I loved about the first two books, including Thara’s character and his investigations into the underbelly of Amalo, with a healthy helping of Ethuveraz politics.

Thara is having to adjust to the events at the end of the last book, and here, I feel, is where we truly see how important his calling is to him—how he handles losing it. It gives some good perspective to why he is so dogged in pursuing his work goals—his calling really is his sense of purpose, his life. Watching Thara grapple with this change and its indefinite consequences was fascinating.

However, it also retains in greater measure some of the things that I didn’t love about the earlier books, including Addison’s obsession with minutiae. I can only read about the characters traveling on this or that tram line so many times before my eyes start skipping lines to the things that really matter. This would bother me less if it didn’t feel like it came at the expense of more important things.

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That's how my day is moving. Even working with timers I got so very little done and it was suddenly it was time to go to the endocrinologist. I could use another day down here but I'm afraid to go home friday. Thursday is meant to be nearly 60 and raining but then down to freezing again. I'd rather be home to avoid that.

I'm getting to that overwhelmed, gonna cry state. But at least I finally got the damn holiday lights out there (boy that little solar panel battery is something. They turned on immediately after being in a closet for a year. I put the garland on the other side of my porch, the one that's collapsing. I think at this point the garland is gonna be what's holding up the side rail if it get another heavy snow.

It looks like maybe, just maybe I can keep most of my meds and/or qualify for coupons. I make like 200$ too much a month to qualify for medical assistance. Let that sink in for a little while. We're doctors. We're college professors. Our pay is SO low we almost qualify for medicaid. And If I had kids I WOULD qualify. And oh, I signed up for the new insurance with the 9K deductible. It's costing 1100$ a month. Let that one soak in too. FFS. No wonder they won't hire help for my department.

My blood work is not great. My kidneys are working great but with my HGA1C sneaking ever higher. That's not great. I'm unhappy which is only going to make my sugar higher thanks to the stress. At least my hemoglobin is coming up. I still have too many tiny pale red blood cells but they're functioning better than last time. She did agree I'll probably have to start B12 shots. Cries. But at least the evolutionary bullshit adaptation for malaria is behaving itself for now.

From there I went to Gallipolis for dinner and the Christmas lights. I knew the Mexican place (since it's owned by the same brothers as the one in Jackson) would be giving out those envelopes for free stuff in January. I was laughing at the new offerings. One of them is punny. Juan Huge Burrito.

the lights were beautiful. They always are. I didn't upload the pictures yet. I will. but I haven't even showed you anything for months.

I forgot my tea advent again

Day 12 - Rocky Mountains - National Park Tea Black teas, raspberry leaf, raspberry flavor, sage leaf, and raspberry pieces. How did I miss this one? I had a sample box of these ones. either I had gotten a bad sample then because this was phenomenal very raspberry

Day 13 - Rooibos Sweet Sizzlin Cinnamon Herbal Tisane Rooibos, organic cinnamon pieces, sweet sizzlin cinnamon flavor and safflower petals. At least the cinnamon overpowers the rooibos funk.

Day 14 Apple Sage Black Tea black teas, apple pieces, natural apple sage flavoring and blackberry leaf. oddly weak sauce and boring. At least it didn't taste like sage

Day 15 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Black Tea Blend Black teas from India, Sri Lanka, China and Taiwan and bergamot oil. They have a whole collection of literature inspired teas (Poe is my favorite) What says Dostoyevsky about this? Nothing but it is a nice complex earl grey

day 16 Snickerdoodle Rooibos Herbal Tisane Organic Green Rooibos, organic cinnamon pieces, sweet blackberry leaf and snickerdoodle flavoring. Needs more snickerdoodle/cinnamon

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torachan

1. Carla needed the car for an appointment today so since we've still only got the one, I worked from home. I didn't have anything that required being in the office anyway, so it worked out.

2. Speaking of the car, they finally found the leak, yay! It should be fixed tomorrow or Thursday. The not so yay part is that apparently it was not a malfunction but was caused by a rock or something getting kicked up into the engine, so we will have to pay for it. We have the money, so it's not a problem in that regard. I'd just rather spend my money on nicer things than car repairs. :p

3. Molly's getting cozy.

catherineldf

I have a huge number of updates and end of year things to post, but I'm scrambling to get things done and wrap up some deadlines. Here's a brief recap:

Queen of Swords Press has released the new Astreiant omnibus! The Complete Astreiant by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett includes all 6 novels and is available in the various ebook platforms. However. Amazon is absolutely fleecing us on this, taking 65% of cover, so please, please, buy it direct from us or Smashwords/D2D or Kobo or even B&N or GooglePlay instead. I need to see if Weightless is interested too. At any rate, the Astreiant Series is eligible for the Best Series Hugo this year! Please keep it in mind.
I'm trying to wrap up the first third of my Data Analytics certification, with a final this week.
I'm doing Queen of Swords Press's 34th event for 2025 this Saturday - stop by AudreyRose Vintage in Minneapolis on 12/20 12-4PM for fun shopping with multiple vendors of various things!
I'm working on edits for Joyce Chng's fab collection, Sailing the Golden Chersonese, which we're releasing early next year.
I need to complete a new grant proposal in the next two weeks.
I have written several thousand works of new fiction, including working on the next werewolf novel in the last few week, thanks to writing sprints.
I have come to recognize that I will not be landing in an IT gig any time soon, if ever, due to needing remote work, my age and the state of the job market, so I'm enrolling in the State of MN CLIMB Program and have gotten myself a small biz mentor through Hennepin County Elevate and I'm doubling down on publishing.
New editing biz is open! Got a manuscript that wants some love or need some publishing coaching or know someone who does? Send them my way!

Okay, stopping there for the moment. End of year wrap up posts coming soon!

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

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I needed a palate cleanser of something light after my last two reads, so from the back of my unread drawer came out Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. My Tudor-reading phase was a while back so the book's high page count was a bit tiring, but I did enjoy revisiting the era.

The book itself is a mix about the place that is London (in modern terms, the city of London and a bit of Greater London) with all its buildings, streets, river traffic and resources, and its people with all their habits, occupations, clothes, food, medical options, social obligations and so on. The description of various familiar areas and what they used to be like (all those open fields!) is fun for navigating by the mind's eye, and of the details of people I think for me the most interesting was their dietary habits, where they ate more different things than you'd think and also in the Elizabethan era there was a push to eat more fish, and no longer because of the old religion but in order to support the local fishing industry. Also, about how apprenticeships work, that's almost your whole life! And the systemic discrimination of outsiders in order to protect local businesses. If you're writing fiction set in the era, it's such a useful resource, as it's both useful and readable, and Picard's few editorializing choices are thoughtful (IMO).

On a meta level, I was curious about some of Picard's comments and assumptions on what was common knowledge, so I looked her up and she was 76 when she published this book in 2003! She passed away a few years ago, but she was born in 1927, which totally explains some of her comments like:

[The Waterbearers' Company] members walked the streets of London with tall conical containers on their backs holding about three gallons -- exactly the shape of an old-fashioned coke hod, for anyone who remembers coke-burning domestic stoves.

I had no idea what she was talking about and had to search "coke hod", then "coke hod kitchen", then coke "hod" kitchen before finding what she meant, i.e. coal hods. Though this would also be a regional thing as much as an age thing.

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Posted by Sarah Brown

https://cheezburger.com/43642885/21-adorable-cat-memes-to-bring-a-boost-of-happiness-on-a-cold-day

Winter has a way of slowing everything down, like a house cat settling in for a very long nap. The days are shorter, the pace is quieter, and even small bursts of joy feel more noticeable. That is usually when a quick boost of happiness comes in handy, even if it only lasts a few moments.

Cat memes fit perfectly into those in-between moments. They are easy, familiar, and instantly mood-lifting without asking for much in return. A quick scroll can break up the day, add a little warmth, or turn an ordinary afternoon into something slightly more fun. There is comfort in knowing that no matter the weather, there is always something silly waiting to make you smile.

Those small smiles add up over time. They make winter feel cozier instead of dull and help everyday routines feel lighter. When the season stretches on, having something simple and cheerful to check in on can keep spirits up and remind you that joy can still sneak in, one cat-filled moment at a time.

https://cheezburger.com/43642885/21-adorable-cat-memes-to-bring-a-boost-of-happiness-on-a-cold-day

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Posted by Idiot/Savant

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-victory-for-maori-in-nelson.html

Way back in 1839, the New Zealand Company bought the area that is now Nelson from local iwi and hapu. As part of the deal, they promised that Māori would retain their homes, fields, and burial grounds, and that in addition, 10% of the land in the planned township and surroundings would be set aside for them. The New Zealand state inherited this deal, and proceeded to break it systematically, refusing to allocate the land promised, and stealing that which had already been allocated. In 2017 the Supreme Court ruled that the state must honour the deal, and last year the High Court found that the state must return land and pay compensation. And after a year of negotiations, they've finally done it:

In Wellington on Wednesday, Attorney-General Judith Collins and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka announced that an agreement had been reached.
Under the agreement, 3068 hectares will be returned to descendants of the original owners, including the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve and the Abel Tasman Great Walk.
The agreement also includes a $420 million compensation payment to recognise land that has been sold by the Crown since 1839 and in recognition of the lost earnings and land use.

Which is pretty cheap for 180 years of back-rent and interest. There's also the quirk that a lot of the land being returned is coastal, while the regime, though its climate change policies, is ensuring that it will be flooded. Which seems like they're undermining the settlement even before it was signed. But that's the "honour" of the New Zealand state, I guess.

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-victory-for-maori-in-nelson.html

soc_puppet

Just got the news via email: My application to graduate has been formally accepted! My degree will be mailed out to me in three to six weeks 💖🎉🎊

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